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Postal codes were introduced in France in 1964, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. They were updated to use the current 5 digit system in 1972. France uses five-digit numeric postal codes, the first two digits representing the département in which the city is located. The département numbers were assigned alphabetically between 1860 ...
The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic . The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Métropole Européenne de Lille. Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque. Communauté d'agglomération de Cambrai.
INSEE /Postal code. 59220 /59155. Elevation. 30–58 m (98–190 ft) (avg. 43 m or 141 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Faches-Thumesnil ( French pronunciation: [faʃ tymenil]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Geography[edit] Nord is part of the current Hauts-de-France region and is surrounded by the French departments of Pas-de-Calais, Somme, and Aisne, as well as by Belgium and the North Sea. Its area is 5,742.8 km 2 (2,217.3 sq mi). [5] It is the longest department in metropolitan France, measuring 184 km from Fort-Philippe in the north-west to ...
Valenciennes (/ ˌ v æ l ɒ̃ ˈ s j ɛ n /, also UK: / ˌ v æ l ən s i ˈ ɛ n /, US: /-n z, v ə ˌ l ɛ n s i ˈ ɛ n (z)/, French: [valɑ̃sjɛn] ⓘ; also Dutch: Valencijn; Picard: Valincyinnes or Valinciennes; Latin: Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France. It lies on the Scheldt (French: Escaut) river ...
Largest: Nord, Hauts-de-France—2,613,000 (2022 census) Smallest: Lozère, ... in the postal code and was until recently used for all vehicle registration plates.
Postal code. 59240. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Rosendaël ( French pronunciation: [ʁozɑ̃dal]; Dutch: Rozendaal; West Flemish: Rozendoale; French Flemish: Roozendaele; meaning "rose valley") is a former commune in the Nord department in northern ...
Maubeuge ( French pronunciation: [mobøʒ]; historical Dutch: Mabuse or Dutch: Malbode; Picard: Maubeuche) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. [3] It is situated on both banks of the Sambre (here canalized), 36 km (22 mi) east of Valenciennes and about 9 km (5.6 mi) from the Belgian border.